SUGI 14 Proceedings

San Francisco, California
April 9 - 12, 1989
Richard LaValley, Conference Chair

Proceedings Index

All documents are in PDF format.

A CMS VM Batch Facility REXX EXEC for the SAS® System A Class of Highly Efficient Resistant and Robust Estimators for Simple Linear Regression for Use with the SAS® System A Clinical Trials Data Management System Featuring Multiple Editing Phases A Concise and Easily Interpretable Way of Presenting the Results of Regression Analyses A Data Management System for Remote Medical Studies Using the SAS® System A General Approach in the Analysis of Repeated Measures Data Using the GLM Procedure A Generalized Editing Procedure for Questionnaire-based Data Using the SAS® System A Hematology Laboratory System Using the SAS® System for PCs A Lockheed Computer-aided Data Verification System A Macro to Separate Records into Output Data Sets by Date and Create Data Set Names with Date as a Part A Macro-based Report Generator A Menu-driven, Microcomputer-based Data Entry System Using Version 6.03 Screen Control Language A Meta-database Implementation Strategy for Documentation and Retrieval Using the SAS® System A Method to Capture and Replay SAS/GRAPH® Software on a Personal Computer A PC Interactive Menu-driven System: Integrating the SAS® for Personal Computers with dBASE III PLUS' and DOS Batch Files A Precursor of Survey Processing in the SAS® System at the Census Bureau A Procedure for the Analysis of Multivariate Binomial Data with Adjustments for Multiplicity A Program to Calculate Weights for Specified Spectral Windows: A SPECTRA Procedure Application A Quick and User-friendly Comprehensive Front-End, for the SAS/GRAPH® Procedures A Robust Code for Producing Stratified, Blocked Randomizations Utilizing VMS' Macro Facilities and the SET Statement with the POINT Option A SAS/AF® Application: Making the Leap from Version 5 to Version 6 A SAS/AF® Software Application to Build Programs from Independent Modules A SAS/IML® Matrix Program to Estimate Indirect Effects and Their Standard Errors A SAS/IML® Program for Randomization Analysis of Dose Response Curves A SAS/SHARE® Messages and Lockout Facility for Users of the SAS System Under OS A SAS® Batch Program Tester Using ISPF A SAS® Information Center Tool A SAS® Look at Geographic Information Systems A SAS® Macro Program Which Generates SAS/DB2Queries from SAS/AF®Inputs A SAS® Macro-based VM Computer Utilization Reporting System A SAS® Matrix Software Macro for Testing the Random Effects in Random Models with Unequal Cell Frequencies in the Last Stage A SAS® Program for the Generalization of the Paired T-Test A Survey of Table Lookup Techniques for the SAS® System A System Approach for the Storage and Retrieval of Information in Clinical Trials A System of SAS® Macros to Produce Kaplan-Meier Life Tables, Plots, and Stratified Mantel-Haenszel Comparisons A Test Scoring Procedure Using the SAS® System A Useful General Procedure File for the ARIMA Procedure A VAX'/VMS ""Command for SAS® Batch Jobs A Way to Realize a Poster: SAS/GRAPH® Software A Workload Characterization Tutorial for Online Systems ADVANCS: An Automated Data Validation and Correction System AFLIST: A Program to Document SAS/AF® Software Libraries ATHENA: An Interactive Load Research Application Using Windows, and Macro Techniques Access to the SAS®System for Blind or Physically Disabled People Advanced Features in SAS/AF® Software An Application Using SAS/QC® Software at Alcoa Laboratories An Evaluation of Residuals for the Cox Model An Expert Systems Application for Selecting Statistical Techniques An Information Centre SAS® Consultant's Opinion on How to Build a "BAD "SAS® Program An Integrated Approach to Computer Systems for NDA Preparation and Presentation An Integrated Environmental Information System (EIS) Implemented with Base SAS® SAS/FSP® SAS/AFP and SAS/OR® Software An Introduction to Artificial Intelligences and the SAS® System An Online Statewide Parole Revocation Tracking System Using SAS/SHARE® Software An Overview of MVA - A Philosophy of Hosting An Overview of the SAS/C® Compiler and Library An Unofficial Owner's Manual for User Group Officers and the NESUG Experience Continues Analysis of Covariance: Multiple Covariates Analysis of Nonreplicated Experiments with SAS/IML® Software Analysis of a Repeated Measures Experiment with Missing Data Analysis of the Properties of Two Binomial Random Number Generators Analyzing Multiple Response Data Using the TABULATE Procedure Analyzing Space-Use Data with a Harmonic Mean Estimator in the SAS® System Application Development Using SAS® Software: A Case Study Application Development under SAS/SHARE® Software Assessing Capability of a Bivariate Process with Emphasis on Hole Location Auditing the Premium Entry Function: A SAS® System Case Study Automated Analysis of Linear-Plateau Models Automated Maintenance of SAS® Software Automating the Process of Downloading SAS® Data Sets to the PC Balanced Design Estimation Batch Use of the EDITOR Procedure for Updating SAS® Data Sets Benchmarking the SAS® System, Release 6.03 Best Presentation of Data-Color Best Presentation of Data-Monochrome Building Macro-based Systems Building a Scientific Computing Environment Using the SAS® System But Will it Sell? Market-based Decision Systems Using SAS® Software Calculating the Wilcoxan Signed-ranks. Test Using Conover's Method Calculation of Basic Statistics for BY Groups on Large Data Sets Clarifying High-Volume SMF Data from Multiple Data Centers to Provide Customers with Meaningful Information Codebooks and SAS® DATA Steps Automated and Integrated with a SAS® Program Generator Collection and Presentation of Online Response Data Color Coding Schemes Using SAS/GRAPH® Software Combining Expert System and Database Technologies with the SAS® System Combining SAS/AFB SAS/FSP, and SAS/DMI® Software to Specify Parameters for Batch Jobs and Submit Them Comparison of VMSORT, SyncSort, PLSORT and SORTT under VM/CMS Using Release 5.18 of the SAS® System Comparison of the QPRINT Procedure with the PRINT Procedure Complex Survey Computations Using the C Language Computerized Database Management System for Clinical Research Data Using SAS/FSP® Software, IBM® DMS Panels, and IBM VM'""/SP REXX Computing the Standard Deviation from a Geometric Mean Configuring your PC to Run the SAS® System Confounding of Effects in Equal n Designs: Factorial ANCOVA Conversion of Running SAS® Software from OS to VMS on a Local Area VAX- Cluster Converting SAS® System for Personal Computers Files to OS Mainframe SAS® Data Sets Converting a SAS® Data Set to a Flat File: A SAS/AF® Software Application Creating Custom Line Types for State Boundaries with the GMAP Procedure and the SAS® Annotate Facility Creating High Resolution Graphics Interactively Using Base SAS® SAS/ACCESS® IDMSEXT, SAS/AFB and SAS/GRAPH® Software Creating a Quality-Control Report Generator for Complex, VariableLength Files' Using the SAS® System and the C Programming Language Creation of a User-defined Ad Hoc Reporting System Using SAS/AF® Program Screens DIFF: A SAS® Program for Comparing Versions of Programs Data Engines for Version 6 of the SAS® System under VMS "" Data Quality Control Reporting in a Multisite Clinical Trial Data Sharing Using SAS/DB2 "Software Database Access Made Easy Database Interfaces under the Version 6 Engine Architecture Database Management Techniques to Ensure Project Integrity Debugging SAS® Macros: A Cookbook Approach Designing Complex Applications Using SAS/AF® Screen Control Language Designing a Full-Screen SAS® Interface for Your IMS Database Designing an Expert System for Computer Performance Evaluation Determination of Polynomial Sums-of-Squares Contrast Coefficients: An Application of Model Reparametrization Results Using the GLM Procedure Determining the Roles of the SAS® System and a Database Management System in Clinical Research Developing Device Drivers with the SAS® Metagraphics Facility Developing IBM® !SPF, DB2;' and SAA Applications With the SAS/C® Compiler Developing a Refund Fraud Detection Program with. the SAS® System Development of a Departmental Interactive Menuing System Using SAS/AF® Software and the Screen Control Language Development of an Interactive Health Care Data Input and Verification System with Version 5 of the SAS® System under VMS Discriminant Diagnostics Don't Do Anything You Don't Have to: Elementary Strategies for Processing Large Data Sets with SAS® Software Dynamic Screen Generation Using Formats: The Case against Hard-Coding Effective Methods of Testing Using SAS® Software Effectively Grappling with Graphics Efficiency Techniques for Improving I/O and Processing Time in the DATA Step Efficient Repeated Generation of Random Samples Enhancing FSEDIT Procedure Applications Enhancing SAS/GRAPH® Output with the Annotate Facility Enhancing SAS/SHARE® Software Capability: Data Set Control, Locking, and Enqueueing Enhancing the Visual Impact and Clarity of Graphics Output Using the Customizing Power of the Annotate = Data Set Estimating Stochastic Coefficient Models with the SAS® System Estimating the Minimum Total Error-Squares Weight Parameter for the Geometric Moving Average Estimating the Translog Functional Form and Calculating Elasticities with Standard Errors: An Application of the IML Procedure Estimation of Error Rates in Discriminant Analysis by Bootstrapping Examining the Relationship between Survival Time and Time-dependent Covariables Using the PHSPLM Procedure Expectations for a Fourth Generation Language Expected Variation of Study-Specific Vaccine Efficacy Estimates Exploiting SAS® System and DCL System Features to Replicate an MVS CLIST Management Reporting System under VMS "" External Language Interface to Version 6 of the SAS®System for PC Data Sets Fast-Tracking for the Clinical Scientist Using SAS® Software Field Reliability Assessment Using the Proportional Hazards Model File Locking Facility for SAS/SHARE® Software First Time User Experiences Using the. SAS/C® Compiler Generation of Form Letters with SAS® Software Generic SAS® Programs: User Control Using REXX HBS-QUERY: Painless and Efficient Database Access Using the SAS® System, REXX and XEDIT under CMS Handling Multicollinearity with SAS/IML® Software: Ridge Regression on the PC Harvesting Information: Data Cleanup and Analysis Techniques How to Establish a Forecasting System with SAS®Software How to Perform Jonckheere's Test Using the CORR Procedure How to Teach the SAS® System to Write Your Next SAS® Program Illustrating Base SAS® SAS/FSP;, and SAS/GRAPH® Software in Epidemiologic Investigations Illustrating Confidence Intervals Using SAS® Software Implementing Classifier Systems in the SAS® System Improving Performance in Statistical Analysis of Large Data Sets: Vector Processing of SAS® Code Improving Program Efficiency through Coding Techniques Improving SAS® System Support at a Large Site Improving the Quality of Survey Data: WESTAT's Computer Assisted Coding and Editing (CACE) System Index Your Book with the DATA Step Language Inside the DATA Step Integrating New Applications Tools in Version 6 Introducing New Documentation for the SAS® System Introduction to Arrays Issues Related to Analyzing Repeated Measurement Data It's 11 p.m. Do You Know What Your SAS® Users Are Doing Tonight? Keeping Data Integrity in Large Corporations Learning C with the SAS/C® Compiler, Student Edition MACPAGE: A SAS® Macro for Enhancing Reports MICHELLE: Statistical Graphics Library Macro: Bells and Whistles for Version 6 Macros: A Few Uses to Get You Started Make a Date with the SAS® System Making SAS/SHARE® Software Bend Over Backwards Or Converting From A Single to a Multi-user System Making Your SAS® Software Skills Portable Managing IDMS/R® Area Utilization: A SAS/ACCESS® Interface to IDMS/R® Beta Release Pilot Manufacturing Measurements: Using SAS® Systems Graphics, Templates, and the Annotate Facility Migration fromHost Processing to Micro Processing: A Conversion Task List Modeling Policy Impact Modular Programming Processes New -Traffic Data into SAS® Database Monotone Regression Utilizing Ranks Most Creative Use of the Software-Color Most Creative Use of the Software-Monochrome Moving a SAS/AF® Applications System from the Mainframe to the PC Multivariate Models for the Analysis of Crossover Experiments Narrowing the Communication Gap: Expanding the Information Center - Client Connection Network Options Running the SAS® System under HP-UX " New Directions in SAS/QC® Software Nonlinear Measurement Error Model Parameter Estimation Using the SAS® System Nonlinear Regression Analysis of a Biexponential Model Using Various Methods of the NLIN Procedure of SAS® Software Normal and Nonparametric Two-sided Tolerance Limits Nuclear Plant Component Surveillance Implemented in SAS® Software One Solution for Standardized Reporting and Easy Access to Complex Data Structures Using SAS® Macros Optimization with Simulated Annealing Outlier Selection in Non-11D Linear Models with Applications to Variance Components P-Value Adjustments for Multiple Tests in Multivariate Binomial Models PC TIMS: A SAS® Software Integrated System for Technical Information Management PROC ARIMA and the Dow Jones Stock Index Performance Enhancements Running the SAS® System under HP-UX. Performance Function for Aircraft Production Using the SYSNLIN Procedure and L2 Norm Estimation Performance Tips for Using the SAS® System on Personal Computers Performance and Storage Management Characteristics of SAS® Versions 5 and 6 Data Library Implementations under MVS Performance of the SAS/DB2™ Interface Pleasing the Picky Manager with the TABULATE. Procedure Polygons: Calculating Area and Identifying Interior Points Processing Nielsen Scantrack Data with SAS® Software Processing and Analyzing Consumer Panel Data Producing Multiple Graphs Using Macros 60 Percent Code Reduction Project Management Reporting Utilizing SAS/GRAPH® and Base SAS® Software Putting the FORMAT Procedure at the Wheel: Advanced Applications of Table Lookup Querying with SAS® Screen Control Language: A Database Browsing and Extraction Application Reaping the Benefits of an In-House SAS® User Group Repeated-Measurement Designs: The Intricacies of Their Analysis with the SAS® System Representing Computerized Tomographic Scans Using the GMAP Procedure in SAS/GRAPH® Software Retro-engineering a SAS® Reporting System Front-End Revising AUTOMAP Using SAS/AF® Software Robust and Exploratory Analyses Automated Running the SAS® System under 386 Multitasking Software SAS Institute's New Stand Alone Graphics Product: NeoVisuals Software SAS institute's online Customer Support Facility SAS/AF® Software and the Art of Multiphrenic Programming: A Distributed Micro-to-Host System under Release 6.03 of the SAS® System SAS/ASSIST' Software: Bringing the Power of the SAS® System to the User SAS/ETS® Software: A Report on the New. Features in Release 6.03 and Other Work in Progress SAS/FSP® Software: Highlights of the 6.06 Release SAS/OR® Software as a Decision Support Tool for the PC SAS® Applications in the Health Care Industry SAS® End User Training: What Is Available and What Can Be Done SAS® Macros and a SAS/AF® Menu System for Reading COMPUSTAT® Files SAS® Programming Standards as a Learning Tool SAS® Software and IBM® Corporation's DB2- An End User Computing Strategy SAS® System Performance Comparisons on Mainframe, Minicomputers, and Micros SAS® System Workbench: Friendly Interface to Sophisticated Tools SAS® Tutorial Session: Reading and Writing Data to External Files SIR on SSHENET: Developing a Common Student Information Database for 14 Universities and.Sharing It under CMS STABLE: A SAS/AF® Software-based System for Performing Statistical Analyses of Drug Stability Studies Software Conversions (without Ulcers!) Solution of 111 posed Inverse Problems Using B-Splines Some Additional Features of Contrasts Speedy Searches Using Embedded Linked Lists Standard Operating Procedure in the Creation, Maintenance, and Quality Assurance of SAS® Programs Starting to Use SAS® System Options Statistical Experts Systems in SAS® Software Structured SAS® Code: A PC-aided Approach Structured Test Design for Data Quality Control Systems Programming Applications in C Using the SAS/C® Compiler Taking the Best Advantage of SAS/GRAPH® Software's Geographic Information System Features Techniques for: Database Update and Auditing in SAS®Software Information Systems The Application of Base SAS° SAS/STAT;and SAS/GRAPH® Software to the Analysis and Presentation of Pharmacokinetic Data The Art of Testing Programs with an Emphasis on. Large Files The Case for Guidelines: A SAS® System Style Primer The DATA Step Graphics Interface The GPLOT Procedure: Quick Tricks for the New User The Importance of Documentation The PHGLM Procedure for Time-Dependent Covariates -and the Case-Cohort Design The QPRINT Procedure: A Little-known and Under-utilized SAS® Gem The QPRINT Procedure: The Fast and Easy Way to Complex Listings, (or How to Avoid DATA -NULL-s) The Rapid Development of Rule-Based Systems Using the FORMAT Procedure The SAS® Supervisor and SET/MERGE Processing The SAS® System for PCs as a Cost Savings and Development Tool for the Mainframe The SAS® System for SMP/E Conversions The SAS® System in a Networked Environment: Present and Future Directions The SAS® System on the UNIX® Operating Systems and Derivatives: The Missing Link The SAS® System under UNIX® and Derivative Operating Systems: New Features, New Power The SAS® System: An Aid in Caring for the Pregnant, Diabetic Patient The SYSTEM 2000® Interface with the SAS®System: When to Use It to Store Your SAS Data The Statistical-Model Toolbox: A SAS® Macro System The TABLES Procedure as an Alternative to the DATA _NULL_ or PRINT Procedure in Generating Report-quality Statistical Tables The TABSORT Procedure: A REXX and SAS® System Application to Collate Statistical Tables The Use of SAS/IML® Software in Implementing the Coherence Property for Discriminate Analysis Variables The Uses and Limits of Screen Control Language: A Complex Multiscreen Application The Version 6 MVS SAS® Data Library Architecture Time Planning of Projects for Staff Members Using SAS® Software Tracking Air Compliance Permit Reviews Using SAS/AF® Software Tricks and Tips for Supporting the SAS® System Under VMS' Trouble-Shooting Version 6 SAS/AF® and SAS/FSP® Applications Two or Three Neat Things You Can do with SAS® Software Unbalanced Factorial Data and Hypothesis Testing Unlimiting a Limited Macro Environment Up, Up, and Away with PC Upload Use of COMPARE and AUTOCALL to Reduce the Code Needed for a SAS® System by 75 Percent Use of the SAS® System for a Three-File Application of Patients, Donors, and Transfusions: Use of the MERGE, FIRST, and LAST Statements and the FORMAT Procedure User-Written Procedures and Extensions in Version 6 of the SAS® System Uses of SAS® Macro Statements: %LET Statement Using Base SAS® and SAS/GRAPH® Software to Manage DASD Utilization at the United States Information Agency Using DATA JVULL_ and STOP Statements to Ease the Transition to the SAS® System Using Extended Tables in Version 6 SAS/AF® Software Using Hewlett-Packard® Graphic Language as an Interface to SAS/GRAPH® Software Using Macro Variable Lists Using Macros to Develop a Flexible End User System to Access, Edit, and Produce Reports from Any Permanent SAS® Dataset Using New SAS® Database Features and Options Using Output. for Input in CMS Using SAS/ACCESS® Interfaces to ADABAS® and DATACOM/DB® Using SAS/AF® Software to Generate the DATA -NULL-Statements Commonly Used in Custom Report Writing Using SAS/FSP® and SAS/AF® Software to Manage .User-defined Formats Using SAS/GRAPH® Software on a Local Area Network Using SAS/GRAPH® Software to Create Enhanced Dendrograms Using SAS/GRAPH® Software to Plot and Annotate Data Using SAS® Software for the Analysis of Reliability and Lifetime Data Using SAS® Software on a Mainframe to Retrieve Data for. a PC Using SQL on Nonrelational Databases Using the GDEVICE Procedure to Customize Device Driver Output Using the GLM Procedure and the CONTRAST Statement: A Very Basic Approach Using the SAS® FSLETTER Procedure in Macro to Produce Quality Letter Output for a Sales and Marketing Department Using the SAS® System for Controlling Distributed Processing under UNIX® and PC DOS Using the SAS® System for Empirical Bayes Estimation and Mapping of Suicide Rates in California Using the SAS® System for Error Identification and Resolution in Large and Complex Data Structures Using the SAS® System to Analyze Your IBM® System Resource Data Using the SAS® System to Assess Multivariate Normality Using the SAS® System to Generate Bibliographies from a Large Data Set Using the SAS® System to Improve Software Quality Reporting Using the SAS® System to Produce the Directory of Texas Manufacturers Using the SQL Procedure in SAS® Programs Using the TRANSPOSE Procedure to Effectively Present Survey Results Variance Component Analysis Version 6 Data Library Engines in the CMS Environment Views-Your Window on Data Weighted Multicollinearity Diagnostics for Logistic Regression What Does R2 Measure? What Is the SAS® System? Another View Writing Efficient C Programs Using the SAS/C® Compiler Writing Portable SAS® Programs You Too Can Produce and Customize Complex Graphs Using the Annotate Facility and the GSLIDE Procedure with Release 6.03 of SAS/GRAPH® Software

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